Literary FOMO and Reading Books We Missed Last Year

Book Talk, etc.

Tina @tbretc and Hannah @hanpickedbooks

Arts, Books

4.6 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Send us a text In Episode 189 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Hannah explore the ups and downs of literary FOMO—what genres and books make us feel the most pressure to read, how we navigate the ever-evolving bookish community, and the books we finally picked up after missing them last year. If you enjoy our commercial-free podcast, please consider supporting us on Patreon! Your membership will give you access to our exclusive bonus episodes, including Niche Novels, Books We DNFed, and What's in ...

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0:00.0	Just make your reading life yours and then see where you can fit in along the way.
0:03.5	I love that.
0:04.6	Look at us.
0:05.8	See you next time.
0:07.4	And done.
0:08.2	And done.
0:23.5	Welcome to Book Talk, etc. A podcast bound to grow your TBR.
0:25.7	I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera.
0:27.5	And I'm Hannah from Handpicked Books.
0:32.2	This is a conversational podcast about books and more from two Midwest mood readers who are easily distracted by new releases.
0:34.8	And today, we're talking about literary fomo.
0:38.5	If you enjoy listening,
0:43.1	we'd love for you to follow us on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. And if you have a quick minute, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing us on social media.
0:47.9	It truly helps us connect with other book lovers.
0:52.8	Hi, Hannah. Hi, Tina. How are you? Good. How are you doing? I am doing good, enjoying a snow day in the Midwest.
1:01.6	Nice. We did not get a snow day today. They're at school, the kids, but we only got like four inches of snow. And yesterday yesterday you would have thought it was the end times,
1:11.1	like with how many alerts there were. But I will say it was very, John was saying that people
1:16.2	were sliding all over the road. So it's probably a good thing that they called it yesterday.
1:20.7	Yeah, I agree. We ended up leaving our office yesterday at work a little bit early because the snow
1:27.0	was starting to come down. And I will
1:28.8	say, you know, we definitely did have, or I had some white out stuff happening on the road on the
1:34.6	way home. So like while it was coming down, it was definitely coming down. Yes. Hard and quick. Yeah.
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